WASHINGTON / SEATTLE (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal probe into whether the former head of NASA’s human spaceflight gave Boeing Co.PROHIBITION) wrong guidance during a lucrative lunar-lander contract competition, said two people familiar with the matter on Friday. PHILO PHOTO: The Department of Justice …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Investors face a classic ‘dictatorial dilemma’ in Belarus – hold on to securities that take advantage of the status quo in a brutal regime, or sell them and close their bonds – but whichever way they go, for largely dependent on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. PHOTO PHOTO: Russian …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be a sabotage operation by Israel, it would “pay an equal price”. The leader of the powerful Iran-backed …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will buy potential COVID-19 vaccines from US drugmakers Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Novavax Inc (NVAX.O), the companies said on Friday, improving the number of deals it has with drugmakers as the global fax race draws to a close. FILE PHOTO: The company logo for Johnson …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain on Friday night ordered authorities to close and ban drinking on the streets in an effort to stop coronavirus resistance – measures that are causing anger and outrage in the hard-to-reach hairdressing sector. PHILO PHOTO: People pictured at a bar amid outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, …
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